Slog - Comments on Fred Thompson Is the Best Fred Thompson He Can Be http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson Posted by Ryan S. Jackson The media wants you to concentrate on Fred Thompson appearing to be semi-comatose and constantly canceling campaign events; what you don't see is that he's been to Florida "three or four times," or that he once helped capture (with the able support of Alec Baldwin) The Red October. (Via Time) Thompson hasn't been in South Carolina in more than a month, he scrapped a recent trip to New Hampshire and then canceled a news conference Saturday in Florida. "You can name a lot of places that I haven't been, and you can name a lot... Copyright 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:52:28 -0800 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:31:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Just Me Anyone else want him elected just to see if he shows for his innaguration?

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831022 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:23:21 -0800 Comment by laterite Laziness seems to have been a common dominant trait for at least the last four Republican presidents. Of course the one that preceded those more than made up for it in rampant paranoia.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831026 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:28:55 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 Thompson will win in a landslide.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831030 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:30:26 -0800 Comment by Fnarf No, he won't. Thompson is a nothing. He's going nowhere.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831036 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831036 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:38:00 -0800 Comment by Just Me @2!!! You reminded me!! Thompson is doing Thomas Dewey's 1948 stratagy!!! By not really running he hopes to defeat the Democrats. I mean that is how Dewey won in 1948!! Wait...Dewey lost to Truman...

But laziness seems innate to the GOP, Eisenhower and Hoover were not super "busy" either. Neither was Coolidge or Harding and Taft, well he was so damn fat he could not move.

Why are the Democrats the only ones who actually work at being President?

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831039 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831039 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:39:33 -0800 Comment by Westside forever The last paragraph really says it all. If a johnny-come-lately slack job like Thompson is #2 (!), the GOP really is desperate. Maybe the pundits are right--their only hope is Hillary, who can galvanize the base by giving them someone to vote against.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831052 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:52:30 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 @5
Why are the Democrats the only ones who actually work at being President?

This plays right into the "Government can't solve the problem, Government IS the problem" mentality of Conservatives. A hard-working President is seen as an enemy of the American taxpayer by the right wing.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831072 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831072 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:10:38 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I hear his next role is as the Crypt Keeper, with his young bride.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831095 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:30:29 -0800 Comment by David Fred "Crypt Keeper, with his young bride" Thompson.

Hilarious... they should do that for Halloween.

He won't need makeup.

]]> David http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831106 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:37:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Being a movie and TV star, I'm betting he's pretty good at putting on his own makeup, IMHO.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831188 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:53:38 -0800 Comment by COMTE Naw, they have people to do that for you, Will. Fred just has to sit in the chair, while they work on him and try not to let his facial skin sag any closer to the floor.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831303 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831303 2008 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:56:10 -0800 Comment by mongo like slog The closest Fred Thompson gets to caring about patriotism is looking like Sam the Eagle.

]]> mongo like slog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/fred_thompson_is_the_best_fred_thompson#c831368 2008 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:18:34 -0800 Comment by monkey Fred Thompson doesn't want to BE president, he wants to play the part of president. Apparently a roll he plans of phoning in.

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